Woman Coroner’s Tale Reveals Husband Forgiveness Pact
A Philadelphia woman identifies as John Pelsue Randall and recounts a marriage forged after years in disguise as a journeyman. The court note marks her as the first known woman coroner’s juror on her husband’s corpse and reflects on love, loyalty, and reform.
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Mowatt
John Pelsue
Randall
Philadelphia
John Connor
New York
John
Aourneyman
Foreman
Inorty
Huusband
Charlton
Continental Congresses and notable attendees tour German cities
Pracg Conanuss at Plankfort on the Mainee reports that the Peace Congress secretaries Rev H Richard and Elihu Burritt lead a large continental delegation through Heidelberg Mannheim Worms Dresden Giessen Cassel Halle Leipsic Berlin Hamburg Hanover Cologne with expected arrivals from Leipsic including Liebig Tholuck and Ubrice. London and Edinburgh items mention the Protestant congress centenary in St Martin's and a proposed Queen Victoria statue at Holyrood Palace.
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Pracg Conanuss
Plankfort-On-The-Mainee
H. Richard
Elihu Burritt
Tey
Heidelberg
Manheim
Worms
Dresden
Giessen
Cassel
Halle
Leipsic
Berlin
Hamburg
Hanover
Cologne
Liebig
Congresa
Tholuck
Ubrice
Shakespeare
Langeur
Prince Albert
Europe
America
London
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
Edward VI
Edinburgh
Queen Victoria
Roy
Holyrood Palace
Magnificent 1861 Exhibition Works and Sundry News
The Times notes the Birmingham building for the 1861 Exhibition with Fox Henderson supplying the iron frame and a Spon Lane glass firm handling glass and tubes. Kingston dwarfs from Sal Salvador are exhibited in Jamaica. Salcombe sisters narrowly escape drowning. a York Lord Mayor visit is planned. coroners fees to be reformed. Burns house sale. an American executioner studies guillotine methods in Paris. and local notices record births marriages and deaths across July.
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Viscount Melbourne
Richmond
Prince Metternich
Kingston
Jamaica
Sal Salvadore
Central America
Birmingham
Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co
London
Smethwick
Messrs
Atlantic
Acre
Stoner
Ringtone-house
Lord Campys
Salcombe
Manchester County Court
Brockwell Hall
Norwood
Urrey
Prince
Thornbury
Gloucestershire
Burns
Dumfries
W. N. Burns
L. M. Child
Brooklyn
Chapman
United States
Paris
Europe
Times
Stamford Mercury
Spalding
Manchester
St. George’s Hall
Liverpool
San Francisco
Caleb Higgs
Worcester Park Farm
Cheam
Liverpool townsman sketched as Judas Iscariot in painting
A well known Liverpool and Birketon figure with Oriental features was stopped on the Strand and sketched by an artist for a grand historical painting. He later saw the unfinished work in the studio and learned the figure appeared as Judas Iscariot in a large Scriptural piece. Rutland’s maiden assizes report notes not a single prisoner stood trial and the sheriff presented the judge with white gloves.
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Liverpool
London
Strand
Guand
Judas Iscariot
Liverpool Times
Rutland
Departure of Nepaulese Princes and Royal Sailings
The Nepaulese princes and suite plan to depart this country mid next month. They travel to India and France, and the Mediterranean command is ordered to send Growler to Marseilles by September 1 to convey them to Alexandria en route to Nepal. Walter Cooper, known as Working Tailors' Association manager, will tour provinces from August 19 to explain Christian Socialism. A House of Commons paper notes £6,250 as the estimated cost of a Peel monument in Westminster Abbey. The Margayormanan Sanitary Association criticizes sewer maintenance and gully problems. A Wesleyan Chapel dispute in Wellington, Oxfordshire over marriage rites leads to a door padlock and a contested ceremony. Exeter Hall public improvements are planned to enhance acoustics and space, with completion expected by late October. An advertisement touts Dr Barry's Revalenta Arabica as a versatile diet remedy, with many testimonials.
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India
France
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Marseilles
Alexandria
Nepaul
United Service Gazette
Walter Cooper
Working Tailors’ Association
Council of
House of Commons
Westminster Abbey
Robert Peel
MargaroiraNn Sanitary Association
Commissioners of Sewers
Wellington
Oxon
Exeter
Haung
Barry
Lord Stuart de Decies
Alexander Stuart
Rosa
Maor
Thomas King
Exmouth
Parker D. Bingham
No. 4
Parkwalk
Little Cheloes
London
Drews
Edwards
An- William Hunt
King’s College
Cambridge
Charles Kerr
Winslow
Bucks
Thomas Minster
Bt. Saviour’s
Leeds
Mr. Taylor
Bolton
Ure
Harvey
James Shorland
Sydney-terrace
Reading
96Th Regiment
Rds
Cs Porter
Athol-street
Perth
du Barry and Co
Chronicle
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Fielding
Jonathan Ild
Mr. Wild
Sidney Smith
Rochford
Thomas Haywatp
Winchester Place
Peckham
W. Freeman
Douglas
Isle of Man
W.C. Stallybrass
James Macteehose
Glass
Louisa Lina
J. 8. Jackson
Falcon Cliff
St. Giles’s
Camberwell
Joan Leu
Eng
Brigton-rise
Lypsa
Mr. J. Powrlt
Oathwark
Baptist
Bishop’s Stortford
B. Hodgkins
G. Mann
Brampton
Hunts
Mary
J. Paar
Bideford
Devon
B. Arthur
Mrcwarn Chalk
Ann Sanders
Salem Chapel
Newton Abbot
J. Chater
Groncy Ensor
Sarah Wooton
Ann Elizabeth
J. Hartland
Theberton-Street
Islington
Misa Sanau Fisnep
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